Some Eighteenth Century Churchmen Glimpses of English Church Life in the Eight
Some Eighteenth Century Churchmen Glimpses of English Church Life in the Eight
George Lacey May
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The bishops were not expected to be organisers of religious energy, or earnest in pastoral work, and to such a point did some of them push this theory that they rarely appeared in their dioceses at all. 1 While emphatically avoiding the extreme state- ments and sweeping assertions which have been too often made concerning the Hanoverian clergy, it is impossible to deny that many of the bishops were excessively worldly, culpably idle and negligent, and too often merely self-seeking political par...tisans. 2 The evidence for such statements is overwhelming. And yet it is not for us to judge even Hanoverian 1 Wakeman's History of the Church of England. 2 C. S. Carter's English Church in the Eighteenth Century (p. 41 ). 127 128 Some Eighteenth Century Churchmen bishops ; for they were largely what their own genera- tion expected and accepted contentedly enough. It is difficult to know quite what was cause and what was effect in the spiritual sloth of the age ; difficult to know if the bishops were the cause or rather the result of the prevailing unspirituality.
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